Post by driverlost on Dec 7, 2017 18:53:02 GMT
Hello my name is Rob. I live in Northwest Arkansas but grew up in the south side of Chicago's burbs until my 6 years in the Air Force, then it brought me back to Chicago with my Bride.
I had a career ending injury in the HVACR trade that brought us down here for my semi retired life about 17 years ago.
My history in jukes goes back to November 1978 when my tinkering with appliances, stereos, small engines, minibikes, and HO train sets came to a sudden halt when the AY160 showed up the day before Thanksgiving as a family Christmas present from my father. This old girl became my life until cars and girls took over but she was always there. Still have it of course. My Dad took me several times to World Wide Distributors for parts and to drool over the latest greatest pins & jukes. I even used Seeburg in my 8th grade final and again freshman year. Sent a letter to the company and received a packet of the history and flyers with a thank you for my interest in the company.
Well this is where I come out of lurking. My history with Seeburg ended in 1978 as I mentioned, and Ron called me out on my mistakes I have on a current eBay auction I have
It's funny I sorta though this would bring me out of hiding but more of a why would you do this to a jukebox, not history errors. 
I am glad it happened and I will share what I'm talking about soon if you are making it through the long read.
I still have my old AY160 as I mentioned who has been sitting with the scans twice issue that other projects keep pushing on the back burner to get to. House, life, work, ext. Re caped everything about 10 years ago, fresh glass from Victory to replaced the cracked one. So soon I'll get back to her. Still have my HO trains, and about 10 assorted Volkswagen projects replaced the minibikes
Well last year I picked up 6 jukes that were retired from various Waffle Houses in Oklahoma. Sadly they were stored in a very damp location and many were junk. I parted out 3 and managed to get enough decent parts to put together a Frankenstein LS1 and after a few hundred dollars on computer and disc reader rebuilds sent off to California I got a Rock-o-la Sybersonic CD player going. My shop tunes now.
My AMi D80
Ok now here is what brought me here. One of my jukes, a SMC1 Disco was too far gone to save, so I turned into a computer desk. I noticed that there is plenty of the same parts this had for sale a long time on eBay, so I decided to do this and see if I could sell it as a desk, over parting it out.
That's how I am now a new member of the page. Oh and yes Ron. Shoot me a pm of the best way to contact you and your address. I will gladly box up all my gutted SMC1 parts less the amp and send them over to you. We can work something out after you get them and you have time to evaluate if I just used your trash service over mine or if if somethings were useful.
Thanks again for putting in the time on my long condensed life story only missing a few hundred other details
Hope to get more involved on the forums as time allows.
Rob
I had a career ending injury in the HVACR trade that brought us down here for my semi retired life about 17 years ago.
My history in jukes goes back to November 1978 when my tinkering with appliances, stereos, small engines, minibikes, and HO train sets came to a sudden halt when the AY160 showed up the day before Thanksgiving as a family Christmas present from my father. This old girl became my life until cars and girls took over but she was always there. Still have it of course. My Dad took me several times to World Wide Distributors for parts and to drool over the latest greatest pins & jukes. I even used Seeburg in my 8th grade final and again freshman year. Sent a letter to the company and received a packet of the history and flyers with a thank you for my interest in the company.
Well this is where I come out of lurking. My history with Seeburg ended in 1978 as I mentioned, and Ron called me out on my mistakes I have on a current eBay auction I have
It's funny I sorta though this would bring me out of hiding but more of a why would you do this to a jukebox, not history errors. 
I am glad it happened and I will share what I'm talking about soon if you are making it through the long read.I still have my old AY160 as I mentioned who has been sitting with the scans twice issue that other projects keep pushing on the back burner to get to. House, life, work, ext. Re caped everything about 10 years ago, fresh glass from Victory to replaced the cracked one. So soon I'll get back to her. Still have my HO trains, and about 10 assorted Volkswagen projects replaced the minibikes
Well last year I picked up 6 jukes that were retired from various Waffle Houses in Oklahoma. Sadly they were stored in a very damp location and many were junk. I parted out 3 and managed to get enough decent parts to put together a Frankenstein LS1 and after a few hundred dollars on computer and disc reader rebuilds sent off to California I got a Rock-o-la Sybersonic CD player going. My shop tunes now.
My AMi D80
Ok now here is what brought me here. One of my jukes, a SMC1 Disco was too far gone to save, so I turned into a computer desk. I noticed that there is plenty of the same parts this had for sale a long time on eBay, so I decided to do this and see if I could sell it as a desk, over parting it out.
That's how I am now a new member of the page. Oh and yes Ron. Shoot me a pm of the best way to contact you and your address. I will gladly box up all my gutted SMC1 parts less the amp and send them over to you. We can work something out after you get them and you have time to evaluate if I just used your trash service over mine or if if somethings were useful.
Thanks again for putting in the time on my long condensed life story only missing a few hundred other details
Hope to get more involved on the forums as time allows.Rob
